The canyon then extends around Mount Namcha Barwa, which stands at about 25,530 feet tall, and Gyala Peri, which reaches 23,930 feet. Overall, Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon has an average depth of ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom at its deepest point in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Somewhere in the misty folds of the Tibetan Himalaya, explorer and photographer Richard D. Fisher found what he spent years looking for -- the world's deepest gorge. But, as David Ferrell reports ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon often comes up in debates about which canyon is truly the world’s largest, longest, or deepest; with a top-to-bottom reach in some sections of up to 17,000 feet ...

While not as vast as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, the deepest canyon in the world, a similarly jaw-dropping and ...

Apex of the Tsangpo Gorge We have just finished a two-day paddle down the Po Tsangpo to the confluence and around to the northernmost point of the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, the apex ...

This book, with more than 50,000 words of text and 100-odd illustrations, tries to present to its readers a complete picture of the mysterious Yarlung Tsangpo Great Canyon. (China.org.cn October ...